Leonardo Gualtieri
I am a member of the Gravity Theory and Gravitational Wave Phenomenology group at
Sapienza University of Rome, where I am Associate Professor in Theoretical
Physics.
My research field is gravitational theory, an extremely diversified subject which involves the physics of
fundamental interactions, astrophysics, nuclear physics. This field has been deeply transformed by the direct detection
of gravitational waves in 2015, which opened the way to the study of gravity in the strong-field regime. Strong-field
gravity can be the key to address several problems and issues of fundamental physics, from the nature of the
gravitational interaction to the elusive equation of state of neutron stars, to the existence of new fundamental fields
as dark matter candidates. To this aim, we study strong-gravity processes involving black holes and neutron stars. The
gravitational wave signals emitted by these processes are currently detected by the LIGO and Virgo interferometers, and
will be observed, with much higher sensitivities, by the next generation of detectors like the Einstein Telescope and
the ESA-led space mission LISA.
